Meet the Exquisite Quill Authors

Saturday, November 2, 2013

EQ Welcomes Jill Blair!

The EQ Blog Welcomes Author Jill Blair!

EQ:Welcome to EQ, Jill! Tell us a little bit about yourself!

Jill: One wouldn’t know it from my day job as a
petroleum chemist and measurement specialist, but I’ve been writing stories
since I can remember.As a child, I
wrote and illustrated stories on paper towels and watched as my mother stapled
the sheets together into books.As a
teenager, I wrote short anecdotal stories and sent them off with great hope to
Reader’s Digest.The fact that RD never
published any of them didn’t tarnish my enthusiasm.

I turned to writing romance in my
twenties.Marriage and children filled
my days with wonderful adventures and put writing on hold for a while.Thanks to the love and support of my real
life hero, my husband, writing and publishing romance stories are the
fulfillment of a lifelong dream.

Jill:My
stories start with a single real-life experience and from that one event, the characters
find life and the story builds.For The Depth of Desire, I started with the
wonder I felt the first time I scuba dived in Cozumel.I began writing that experience and then it
became Sarah’s eyes that saw the clear blue water and felt the warmth flow over
her skin. For Early Surrender, the
event was the first time my father played blackjack with me in Las Vegas.

EQ:What
kinds of female characters do you prefer to write?

Jill:I prefer
to write female characters who begin the story with the perception they built emotional
strength through a painful event in their past only to discover true personal
strength by choosing to trust another with their love.

EQ:Tell us a little bit about your most recent release.

Jill: Early
Surrender is my third steamy romance novel.The story begins with Jacelyn Montgomery-Allison returning to Las Vegas
for a week, the city in which she once lived and continues to love, to draw
strength in preparation for her upcoming divorce.Her world is unexpectedly shaken when she
reunites with her first love, the man whose callous treatment changed the
entire path of her life eleven years earlier.